This is not the longest , but just a starter


558 Heworth Interchange Stand D-Seaburn Dene Estate , Dovedale Road

Without using the "follow the crow" method according to google maps the journey is 12 miles.

(7 hours ago)EastGatesheadRider wrote This is not the longest , but just a starter


558 Heworth Interchange Stand D-Seaburn Dene Estate , Dovedale Road

Without using the "follow the crow" method according to google maps the journey is 12 miles.

Are we counting historical routes? The old 202 Peterlee - South Hetton - Seaham - Sunderland has to be up there - 1h14m each way.

X18, from Berwick to Newcastle is the longest bus route in the North East surely?. Roughly 80 mile from end to end on the long runs.

Mind there's absolutely no reason logically why you'd do it though.

Assume the 685 will be the longest where it kinda makes sense to do it, but I'd personally be on the train.

AD122 from Wallsend to Bowness on Solway , usually using a Optare Solo.

Wallsend end - http://flic.kr/p/jafB8p

Bowness end - http://flic.kr/p/GWaDFu

There used to be X50 Newcastle to Darlington.

X15/X18 Newcastle Haymarket- Berwick

X11 Newcastle- Scarborough

X46 Stanhope Market Place - Framwellgate Moor (College)

Weardales twice weekly X21 Stanhope to Newcastle/MetroCentre.

638 - Sunderland to Crawcrook

Two current ones...
X16 - Newcastle to Kelso - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gjm-photog...4681195004
X74 - Newcastle to Jedburgh - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gjm-photog...3945328698

Used to be a few from Teesside.
X3 - Loftus to Leeds - https://flic.kr/p/2q3DmkQ (Photo by Tim Jennings)
X95 - Loftus to Keswick / Kendal - https://www.flickr.com/photos/45726467@N02/11294671573 (Photo by David Beardmore)

Others
638 - Sunderland - Crawcrook (although entirely with in T&W, a very lengthly route) - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gjm-photog...7224727944
714 - Newcastle - Kielder Castle - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gjm-photog...0810132793
131 - Edinburgh /Galashiels / Jedburgh - Newcastle - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gjm-photogenic/6197368343
888 - Metrocentre / Newcastle - Keswick - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gjm-photog...4100818797 (Used to be so much more frequent)
X3 - Whitehaven - Metrocentre - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gjm-photog...9879718142
710 - Galashiels - Metrocentre - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gjm-photogenic/9392801550
X90 - Newcastle / Metrocentre - Darlington - York - https://www.flickr.com/photos/jncarter1962/8427425913 (Photo by John Carter)
X99 - Hartlepool - Metrocentre - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gjm-photog...6761175455
(X)100 - Teesside - Metrocentre - https://www.flickr.com/photos/solenteer/55241225070


This one was an obscure one, and I only managed to ride it due to a loop hole with the Network Travel ticket. It was operated by Compass Travel, I think it's one of the earlier varients of the 318 before it got condensed to Ashington to Silverlink. Basically the morning journey was Newcastle Pilgrim Street up to Bedlington and Ashington along the X31 route, then it went through North Seaton past Ashington college before heading down the Spine Road before turning off to go into Cramlington, it then went back to the A19, came off at Holystone and went though Cobalt and Silverlink before heading through the Tyne Tunnel, down the A19 coming off at Chester Road in Sunderland, it would head down Springwell Road to Durham Road before terminating at Bede Campus of Sunderland College. The return trip in the afternoon would only go as far as Ashington, and would head from Cramlington to Ashington through Bedlington. Needless to say, very few people used it, and it only lasted a very short time. This would have been around late 2002 to early 2003.